Kick It meaning?

twinmatrix · #1 04-10-2017, 08:18 AM

Can someone please explain the song to me? I thought "kicking it" is doing drugs but from the lyrics it seems to be the opposite. I don't really get it! Thank you. X

pattyfan · #2 04-10-2017, 08:25 AM

My interpretation was that it was about a bad relationship and she was using drugs as a metaphor for love and that it's hard to "kick" (give up) the relationship just as it's hard to give up drugs. But that's just my interpretation.

Kevin

**SisterNightroad** · #3 04-10-2017, 08:45 AM

She just said that it was a Mike Campbell's song.
However I think that as written in the lyrics it's just "Kicking the habit" in the meaning of quitting something addictive, in this case overtly a not totally healthy love and possibly in a more covert meaning a real addiction.

24karatstevie · #4 04-10-2017, 01:11 PM

I agree with what others have said. I think it has a double meaning of getting out of a relationship that isn't working while also being a metaphor for drugs. I love this song. It's one of my absolute favorites from Street Angel. I especially love the "A strange kind of love affair. A declaration of war" part.

twinmatrix · #5 04-10-2017, 01:20 PM

So kicking actually means QUITTING?

**SisterNightroad** · #6 04-10-2017, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by twinmatrix

So kicking actually means QUITTING?

Among other things yes: http://www.wordreference.com/enit/kick%20the%20habit